Jack F. Murphy(1943-2013)

Born in Montreal, Canada in 1943. Started as a Canadian distributor of 16mm films and founded Criterion Pictures Corp. Ltd. in 1966, eventually holding the 16mm distribution franchise for Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. and others in Canada. Moved to California, USA in 1984 and founded American Cinema Marketing Corp. a company licensing feature films internationally. In 2001 became president of BorderCrest Production Services, Inc., a U.S. corporation that had provided Canadian production rebates to major U.S. studios for feature films filmed in Canada. In 2001 formed Associated Screen Artists, Inc., a company that develops and produces feature films.